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This article lists anniversary events related to rail transport that occurred on November 12.
Events
[edit]19th century
[edit]- 1885 – The first train to travel the entire route of California Southern Railroad's track through Cajon Pass (pictured) carries a shipment of rails from Barstow to Riverside.[1]
20th century
[edit]- 1901 – The Pacific Electric Railway is incorporated in California.[2]
- 1904 – The 157th Street station on New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line opens.
- 1931 – The Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., commemorates the 100th birthday of the John Bull, the world's oldest surviving operable steam locomotive, by operating its mechanism with compressed air.
21st century
[edit]Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- 1900 – Henry Villard, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1881-1884, dies (b. 1835).
References
[edit]- ^ Duke, Donald & Kistler, Stan (1963). Santa Fe ...Steel Rails Through California. San Marino, California: Golden West Books. p. 32. ISBN 0-87095-009-6.
- ^ Walker, Jim (2006). Images of Rail: Pacific Electric Red Cars. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0-7385-4688-7.